GAZA June 26. 2024 (Saba) - The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, confirmed that ten children lose one or two legs every day in the Gaza Strip on average.
This came during remarks delivered by Lazzarini at a press conference in Geneva, based on figures issued by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), explaining that these figures do not include children who have lost hands or arms.
"Ten children a day means about 2,000 children after more than 260 days of this brutal war," he said.
"We also know how amputations are carried out in very often horrific conditions and sometimes without any kind of anesthesia, and this also applies to children."
The Government Information Office in Gaza said two days ago that more than 17,000 children have been orphaned by the occupation in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war on the Strip on the seventh of last October, noting that 3% of the total of these children lost both their parents.
The children of Gaza are living in extremely tragic conditions as a result of the war, amid decaying infrastructure, the spread of epidemics and diseases, and frequent displacement, where they live in shelters and tents without the necessities of daily life.
On more than one occasion, human rights and UN organizations have described the past months as a collective failure for all humanity, in light of the continued suffering of children and their families, warning of the consequences of not taking urgent measures to stop the suffering and destruction in the Gaza Strip.
The Zionist enemy continues its genocidal war in the Gaza Strip, amid indifference to UN resolutions and human rights calls demanding an immediate cessation of aggression and an end to the commission of more war crimes against civilians in the Gaza Strip, including women and children.
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resource : Saba